Good thing the electronics told us who won this race or it would have been a photo finish. This class had a 46 car field and ran on a Wood left the line first with a reaction time of. Ficher was not far behind with a reaction time of. Woods won the race with an ET of A dial-in class with a car field, 6 rounds of elimination and the finals.

In the finals No. Wagner in a Maverick on a Wagner had a reaction time of. Wagner ran an ET of Wagner went across the finish line first to take the win.

Joshua Wagner and his Hot Rod Maverick is shown below. There were two rear-engine Top Fuel cars running this week-end one of which is campaigned by the same crew that runs Fighting Irish the Funny Car. A lot of wheels up. Purple Reign not only does great wheel stands but has some dandy mascots.

Scene At The 56th Bakersfield March Meet - Hot Rod Network

Friday, Saturday and Sunday the Grove was full of hot rods. March Meet truly has something for everyone. Where else can you watch 4 days of racing, with 15 classes and cars running elimination rounds, with winning speeds ranging from mph to mph, capped off by fire spewing 2 jet cars.

More photos and an article on March Meet tomorrow night.

2018 Bakersfield March Meet Final Results

After Round 2 the ladders for tomorrow will be: Both these classes will run semi-finals and finals tomorrow. The ladder for the Fuel Altereds is set. Semi-finals and finals will be run tomorrow. All classes will run eliminations tomorrow. Information and race results for the remaining classes was not available. The Grove was full of great cars today. A couple photos are below. Tomorrow promises some great racing in all classes.

Friday Recap Today Group 1 7. Funny Cars and Top Fuel will each have one more round of qualifying tomorrow and the first round of eliminations in Funny Cars will be held.

Qualifying Results on Friday: Fournier ran an ET of Top speed in the class was This class had 46 cars. C Gas runs on a 9. Barrie ran an ET of 9. Top speed in this class was This class fielded 49 cars. Foti ran an ET of 8.

2014 March Meet

B Gas class had a 32 car field. Bakersfield resident Jason Barta is the No. Top speed of This class had a field of 34 cars. Van Gordon ran James Howe set top speed of This class had 36 cars.

March Meet

Lister ran an ET of 9. Top speed was set by Bill Wood at This class had an 18 car field. Bates set both top ET and Top Speed. This class had 11 cars. Parks had both top ET and Top Speed. This was an 8 car field. This field started with 31 cars.

March Meet - Wikipedia

Horan ran an ET of 5. These are the fastest and quickest times thus far.

Going into the final round Tony Bartone was in the number 1 spot. When the dust settled at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California, a New Yorker, a Canadian, a couple Arizonians, and a fistful of Californians had won their respective classes at the coolest nostalgia drag race in the world.

The weather in Bakersfield was virtually perfect from the time that qualifying started on Thursday morning to the time that the last of the cars were loaded into their trailers on Sunday afternoon. Droves of fans came by the day and hundreds a thousand plus? The swap meet was huge and diverse as usual, the famed Famoso Grove was filled with cool cars each day, and as they have in years past drag racing luminaries could be found on the track, in the pits, and even in the stands watching the racing.

Like at all good races, there were heavy favorites, dark horses, and once the racing got going there were upsets and non-stop action.

So who won in the nitro classes? Bartone is the owner and driver of the quickest and fastest front engine dragster in history but for whatever reason, the car has never performed consistently after crossing west of the Mississippi River. With that in in their caps, the Bartone team was at Famoso to really show the world what they were capable of and they did so in fine fashion.

Against August, the team leaned on the car and went 5. This allowed a slower 5. Bartone broke through in fine fashion with one nasty rail! On one side was Dan Horan Jr. Horan was the number one qualifier and he looked like it.